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to family histories. They contain numerous individual names and
describe
the everyday life activities in Oconto County, Wisconsin's, past. Researched,
transcribed and contributed by
Richard La Brosse

Oconto Falls—“Every
year we are surprised that we are
both here to celebrate our wedding anniversary.”
That is the sentiment
of Joseph and Mary (Carriveau) Sounier who have lived all of their 71
years
of wedded life in this community. They do not have any
formula or
special secret for their longevity, but the simple pure faith which
blends
into their every day living. When this reporter dropped in on
them
Good Friday afternoon, they were having their own observance of
day.
Mary was reading from her yellowed little book “The Way of
the Cross” and
Joe was giving the responses. Still living on their little
farm in
the little gray house on Lena, Route 1, the Souniers have proven that
modern
conveniences are not necessary to health. While Joe has some
problems,
he does not worry about them as he says “Mary can take good
care of Mr.”
And she does! Last fall they were urged to move into town but
Joe
wants to live out his allotted time in the little house that has been
their
home for so many years. He was born in Eastern Canada and
came to
this country as a young man and met the pretty French girl who would be
his companion through the years. He will be 96 in
May. Mary
was a member of a large family, and still has two sisters, but she is
the
spryest of them all. She will be 89 in June but she is as
quick on
her feet as she ever was. In Fact, she says,
“Better, because as
a girl I was sickly”. In 1924, she and Joe went to
Quebec to visit
his family, and they also went to the Shrine of St. Anne de
Beaupre.
She went there with great faith and has not been ill since.
The Souniers
do not plan any celebration, but their nieces and nephews and friends
always
manage to remind them that the date April 10th is important.
They
were married in Oconto Falls, in the first structure known as St.
Anthony’s
Catholic mission. The priest from St. Patrick’s at
Stiles officiated
at the nuptial mass. Last year Mary’s project was
pickling fish,
and this year she was cooking meat for headcheese. She still
carried
in the wood and water, and does all the necessary chores. She
gets
to church and still enjoys a card party. Their many friends
are wishing
them a very pleasant summer and more health and happiness.

Oconto
Falls—Rupert H. Storzer, Green Bay, has accepted
the position of station agent for the North Western railroad and took
over
his duties here Friday. Storzer has worked for the North
Western
for 28 years. He has been stationed at Sheboygan, Two Rivers,
Cleveland,
Belgium, Mountain and Green Bay. N.W. Peterson, who has been
the
agent here for the past 24 years, accepted a position as agent at
Shawano
and took over his duties there Friday and expects to move his family
there
soon. Storzer will move his family here the first part of
September.Oconto
Falls—Dr. Richard R. Ross passed his examination
with the State Board of Medical Examiners of Milwaukee on July
11th.
Doctor Ross is now associated with Doctor T.N. Robinson in the
Robinson-Ross
Clinic here in Oconto Falls. He is married and has three
children,
Richard, 6, Ralph, 5, and Ronald, 3. They are vacationing in
Montana
with Mrs. Ross. Doctor Ross, 35, is a native of Deer Lodge,
Montana.
He went to Harvard in 1934 with a Conant scholarship and graduated in
1938.
He went to Medical school at Marquette University and received his M.D.
in 1942. It was while here he became acquainted with Dr.
Robinson.
(They exturned together at St. Luke’s Hospital,
Racine). From 1942
to 1947 he was in the US Navy. Two years of this was as a
battalion
surgeon in the Second Marines. He made two beachheads and saw
considerable
action in the Marinas and Saipan. From 1947 to May of this
year he
operated a 20-bed city hospital in Lake Preston, S.D. It was
the
only hospital in a radius of 50 miles. Dr. Ross will make his
home
in Oconto Falls and the Herald and its reader’s welcomes him.

Oconto
Falls—Miss Nancy A. Desreumaux of Oconto Falls
became the bride Saturday of John E. Robaidek at 10 am nuptials at St.
Anthony’s Catholic Church. The bride is the
daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Desreumaux. The bridegroom is the son of
Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Robaidek of Sobieski. White roses and rust
mums adorned
the altar as the Rev. Joseph A. Tomczyk officiated. The bride
was
given in marriage by her brother, James O. Desreaumaux. Mrs.
Herbert
E. Pritzlaff of Brookfield was the honor attendant. Miss
Kathy Becker
of Milwaukee was her cousin’s aide. Eugene Robaidek
was best man
for his brother. Robert Jankowski and Jerrold
O’Neill ushered.

Oconto
Falls—Miss
Loretta Deterville, R.N., will be a June bride,
her engagement and approaching marriage to Cletus Lambert, son of Mr.
and
Mrs. John Lambert, Oconto Falls, having been announced by her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Deterville, Oconto. The marriage will take
place
at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church at Oconto June 7.
Miss Deterville
is a nurse at the Oconto Falls Hospital. Mr. Lambert is
employed
at the local paper.

Oconto
Falls—

Benson Schaub, who has been carrying
the mail to rural
folks of this community since April 16, 1919, formally retired from
this
very important branch of government service on November 30th of this
years.
He is only retiring from the service, but expects to keep actively
engaged
in farming after a good rest and learning how to enjoy a little more
sleep
in the morning after so many years of early rising.

He was appointed to carry mail on rural
route 2, on
the retirement of the late Frank O’Neill, out of Oconto Falls
in 1919 and
served this route for seven years. During these early years
he had
to drive horses and “used up” twelve of this kind
of motivation before
he got his first Model T Ford. It would be interesting to
compare
this first automobile with Benson’s twentieth horseless
carriage he has
owned. His first route was 27 miles long with 120 patrons,
and his
last route 62 miles with 320 families to serve. Even after he
had
a car, it took some time before the roads were plowed out and it still
called for horses and an enclosed mail rig in the winter
months—Schaub
had two of them—one on runners and one on wheels.
The latter was
for the muddy seasons.

The life of a mail carrier as Schaub
knew them was
made up of long hard days. Up long before daylight and often
it was
impossible to get home before dark. Many days he would have
to leave
his rig and horses with some farmer, then hire the farmer with a
bobsled
and a team of heavy draft horses to bring him home. Then the
next
morning, they would pick up the mail, go back to the farmers place and
from there his rested team would take him the rest of the route.

By
way of celebrating a sixty fourth wedding anniversary,
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. E. Volk, Sr., entertained their children and
grandchildren
at a six o’clock dinner on Tuesday evening, Dec.
22nd. The ceremony
that united in marriage this very worthy couple was performed by
Justice
Minnick in 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Volk were both born in
Kewaunee, Mr.
Volk being the first white child born there. He will be 90
next May
17th and Mrs. Volk will be 85 on the 5th of that month. They
still
enjoy living and maintain a mental clarity that makes visiting with
them
a real joy.

In October they were the honored guests
of the city
of Kewaunee at its annual homecoming festival. They enjoyed
every
minute of the trip. Mr. Volk spoke to the assembled folks
over a
microphone, and this fact calls to mind the progress these folks have
been
privileged to witness during their lives. Both came to this
community
when Oconto Falls was just a group of shacks at the Falls on the Oconto
River and have seen it grow to a modern city.

They have come to know the wonders of
radio, air mail
and travel, transportation from the oxcart to the new model cars,
lighting
from tallow candles to electricity and so on and on down the list that
is too long to print. However, the Volks have played an
important
part in the life of the community and should feel an honest pride in
its
best features. Except for a three-year sojourn in Kansas,
they have
lived here continuously. Anyone interested in the history of
the
community, should visit with the Volks, as they are the holders of many
incidents of true historical value. The seven children born
to Mr.
and Mrs. Volk are all living. Wm. E. Fr., Harry, Miss Ina and
Ruth,
Mrs. E.C. Lee, are all of this vicinity, but their other son and two
daughters
are residents of California. They are Edwin Volk, Mrs. Mary
Lindstrom
and Mrs. Bertha Gower.

Oconto
Falls—Mrs.
Daisy B. Wilson, 81, of Pulaski, died in Oconto
Falls Community Hospital Monday afternoon. A former Oconto
Falls
resident, she had been ill for the past year with a heart
condition.
She was born in the Town of Lessor, Shawano County, February 28,
1878.
Her marriage to John A. Wilson took place December 11, 1895.
He died
November 23, 1914 and she then married Henry Wilson September 1,
1942.
He died February 25, 1956 and she then went to Pulaski to live with her
son, Loren. Mrs. Wilson was a charter member of the Angelica
Methodist
Church, and later belonged to the Oconto Falls Methodist Church while
she
lived in this community. Friends may call at the Soulek
Funeral Home
here after 7 o’clock this evening and until 10
o’clock Wednesday evening.
The body then will be in state at the Angelica Methodist Church from 9
am Thursday until the time of the rites at 2 pm. The Rev.
Walter
Hagen will officiate, and burial will be in Hillside Cemetery,
Angelica.
Surviving Mrs. Wilson are four daughters, Mrs. Leonard Hansted,
Appleton;
Mrs. Louis Lepak, Milwaukee; Mrs. Joseph Plain, Oconto Falls and Mrs.
Harry
Ruhe, Saynor, Wis.; three sons, Loren, Pulaski; Harold and Archie,
Gillett;
two sisters, Mrs. Bessie Kvaley, Pulaski, and Mrs. Hans Kvaley,
Navarino.

Oconto
Falls—

We are in receipt of the following news
item from Mark
H. Hansen of Manly, Iowa. Mark is the son of H.P. Hansen, a
resident
of Oconto Falls from 1902 to 1916. The senior Mr. Hansen
worked in
the paper mill and was well known for his baseball ability in this
area.
Mr. Hansen was a faithful subscriber to the Times-Herald until the time
of his death and his friends in this area mourn his passing.
Manly,
Iowa—Funeral services for H.P. Hansen, 81, who died Saturday
at the Iowa
Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines, were held Tuesday, June 26 at 9 am at
Sacred Heart Church here. The Rev. Leo E. Derga
officiated.
Burial was at Sacred Heart Cemetery with Bride’s Funeral Home
of Manly,
in charge. Mr. Hansen was born at Falster, Denmark, and came
to the
United States with his parents when a small child. The family
settled
at Oconto, Wis. He was married in 1902 to Annie Ryan at
Oconto Falls.
The family moved to Manly in 1916. He had been in bridge
construction
work for the Milwaukee road in Wisconsin. He was a carpenter
and
served for 11 years a custodian of the Manly Public School.
He was
preceded in death by his wife and two daughters. Surviving
are three
sons, Mark, Manly; Kenneth, Des Moines and Eugene, Tacoma, Wash.; three
daughters, Ms. Arnold (Dorothy) Hanson; Mrs. Richard (Jean) Geissinger
and Loretta Bowman, all of Des Moines; two brothers, Charles, Tuczon,
Ariz.
And William, Milwaukee.

Oconto
Falls—

Mrs. Ellen Howland, 100 year-old
pioneer of Oconto
Falls, but now a resident ofPrichard, La. And born during the time
when “Old Hickory”
Jackson was president, has taken adeep interest in each of the 25
presidents who have
served during her lifetime and she has notyet seen anybody, unless it is this Mr.
Roosevelt,
with the makings of a Lincoln. I’ve seen threepresidents personally in my time and
could have seen
more if I’d wanted to, but I wasn’timpressed by any of them but Mr.
Lincoln. He
was a powerful man. I saw him in Brandon, Vt.,long after I was a grown
woman. “He was truly
a great man. I only wish we had him in theWhite House today. This Mr.
Roosevelt might
get us out of the crisis—I only hope he will—but,so far, Mr. Lincoln is the only man
I’ve seen would
could do it. It’s the most difficult period thecountry’s been through in my
lifetime. “ “I
can tell you, even the Civil war doesn’t seem as bad,as I look at it
now.” Mrs. Howland celebrated
her 100th birthday last June 11, at the home ofher daughter, Mrs. John Temple here,
and she has every
intention of celebrating her 101stbirthday and a number of
others. There are far
too many interesting things to occupy her timefor Mrs. Howland to contemplate giving
them up.
She has a little white cottage in Prichard,where she lives with her grandson, Evan
Schaal, to
keep her pets and flowers, the world news tokeep up with through the newspapers and
the radio,
her church work, and innumerable friendswho call on her all afternoon
long. “Of course
I do all my own housework,” she laughed at thequestion.

“There’s just us
two and the work
is almost nothing to do. I cook our meals and takecare of our clothes and would do all my
own washing
and ironing. But my grandson insists onhaving a darkie come in once a week to
do that and
the heavy cleaning. He says white women inthe south don’t do their
washing, and I guess they
don’t. “They’re such a friendly
lot,” shedeclared. “ I sat
down this afternoon to catch
u with my patching and darning and I’ve just hadmore callers.
They’re lovely to me, inviting
me about and all. “My two kittens, Maggie and Baby,were given to me by one of my
neighbors,”she went
on, pointing out two playful calico cats whofrisked together in the
shrubbery. Mrs. Howland
scoffed at the idea of being ill. “I
haven’t reallybeen sick for five years.”
She declared. “In fact,
I don’t think I’ve felt better in my life than I doright now. This is such a
good climate.”
When her work is done in the evening, Mrs. Howlandenjoys reading the newspapers, and
discussing the
happenings of the day with her grandson.She also enjoys her radio.
“You know,” she said,
“I’ve never heard a better speaker thanPresident Roosevelt.

I’ve had a little
trouble
hearing, but I could hear every work of his speechthe other night, and I thought it was
wonderful.
He certainly sounds like a fine young man tome.” Mrs. Howland
has three children living.
Mrs. Lucy Schall, Negaunee, Mich; Mrs. MaySchaal, Oconto Falls; Mrs. John Temple,
Oconto Falls;
15 grandchildren, 23 greatgrandchildren.